NAIROBI, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi could still pardon three jailed Al Jazeera journalists
who are now facing a retrial if he deems it appropriate, the
country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.

Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and
Australian Peter Greste were sentenced last June to seven to 10
years for spreading lies to help a “terrorist organisation” – a
reference to Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

MOMBASA/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya must win a battle against militant ideology that is seeping in from its northern neighbour and spreading to Muslim youths at home if it is to stop Somali Islamists extending their reach in east Africa.

After two attacks in 10 days by Somalia’s al Shabaab group that killed more than 60 people, President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed to step up his “war on terror” to halt raids across the porous border and stop any dream of making an Islamic Caliphate.

MOMBASA/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya must win a battle against militant ideology that is seeping in from its northern neighbor and spreading to Muslim youths at home if it is to stop Somali Islamists extending their reach in east Africa.

After two attacks in 10 days by Somalia’s al Shabaab group that killed more than 60 people, President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed to step up his “war on terror” to halt raids across the porous border and stop any dream of making an Islamic Caliphate.

NAIROBI, Dec 4 (Reuters) – On the edge of Kenya’s capital,
two doors down from a gleaming display of Germany’s luxury
Porsche cars, another showroom offers Africa’s answer to the
continent’s potholed roads.

It’s called the Mobius. It has no flashy dials, alloy wheels
or electric windows. In fact it has no windows at all except for
the front windshield.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somali al Shabaab Islamist militants killed 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in northeast Kenya on Tuesday, prompting the president to change his top security officials to tackle a relentless wave of violence.

Kenyans have grown increasingly critical of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his government for failing to do more to defend the nation from the incessant militant attacks, which have killed well over 200 people since 2013.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Africa Oil, which has a 50 percent stake in Kenyan fields where commercial reserves of crude have been found, wants to offer part of its holding by early 2016 to a new partner that can help it fund development, the chief executive said.

Africa Oil and its existing partner Tullow Oil, which holds the other 50 percent, have found more than 600 million barrels of recoverable reserves. A final decision to develop the fields is expected in the first quarter of 2016.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s president said on Monday he would attend a hearing at the International Criminal Court this week, the first sitting world leader to appear in The Hague-based court, although he said he would be going in a personal capacity.

Uhuru Kenyatta told parliament he would appoint his deputy, William Ruto, as acting president in his absence to avoid putting the “sovereignty of more than 40 million Kenyans on trial” and would not attend in his position as head of state.

NAIROBI, Oct 1 (Reuters) – An upward revision of Kenya’s
economic output shows that the country’s economic reforms are
paying off, with the potential for future growth to exceed 6
percent a year, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) official
said on Wednesday.

Kenya announced on Tuesday that last year’s gross domestic
product was $53.4 billion – 25 percent higher than previously
stated – after updating the base year for its calculation.
Growth for 2013 was revised up to 5.7 percent from 4.7 percent.

NAIROBI, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Kenya’s gross domestic product
was estimated to be 25 percent bigger after the authorities
changed the base calculation year to 2009 from 2001, sending the
east African nation into the continent’s top 10 economies.

Economic output was calculated to be 4.76 trillion shillings
($53.4 billion) in 2013 after the rebasing, up from 3.8 trillion
shillings ($42.6 billion), the minister for devolution and
planning, Anne Waiguru, told a news conference on Tuesday.

About Edmund

"Responsible for Reuters coverage from Egypt and Sudan, and overseeing operations of the Cairo-based Reuters Arabic language service. Previously was Bureau Chief, Iran. Have worked throughout the Middle East for most of the past 15 years, including covering the Iraq war and Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Have also covered financial and energy affairs, holding positions that inlude equities reporter in London."